Harry Ricketts

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ISBN 0701137444 (published in the US as Rudyard Kipling: A Life, Carroll & Graf, New York City, 2000. ISBN 0786707119) [22]
  • Strange Meetings: The Lives of the Poets of the Great War , Chatto & Windus, London, UK, 2010. ISBN   9781845951801
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    2. Andrew Motion, Guardian (UK) online, Saturday 13 November 2010 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/nov/13/strange-meetings-poets-war-review" \t "_blank" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/nov/13/strange-meetings-poets-war-review; and Jonathan Beckman, New Statesman (UK) online, 18 November 2010. http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/11/war-poets-poetry-sassoon" \t "_blank" http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/11/war-poets-poetry-sassoon
    3. Harry Ricketts, "Snapshots of my Father", in Sons of the Fathers, edited by Bill Sewell (North Shore City, N.Z., Tandem Press, 1997).
    4. 4 Roger Robinson, Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature (Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 467.
    5. Harry Ricketts, How to Live Elsewhere (Four Winds Press, Wellington, 2004).
    6. Harry Ricketts, "Snapshots of my Father", in Sons of the Fathers, edited by Bill Sewell (North Shore City, N.Z., Tandem Press, 1997).
    7. Robinson, p. 467.
    8. Harry Ricketts, How to Live Elsewhere (Four Winds Press, Wellington, 2004).
    9. Harry Ricketts, "Three Poems for George Fraser" in Nothing to Declare (HeadworX Publishers, Wellington, 1998).
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    11. Publisher's Preface in Nothing to Declare (HeadworX Publishers, Wellington, 1998).
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    Harry Ricketts
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    Alma mater Oxford University